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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4904299, member: 19463&quot;]Anyone wishing a pretty example of the late Roman tiny AE needs to be very lucky or very persistent.&nbsp; I found a few I could tolerate among the really common rulers like Marcian and Leo I but those who seek the rare guys can not be picky about things like faces and legends. </p><p>Marcian, Constantinople (trace barely shows at bottom)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183067[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Leo I:&nbsp; The fact on these is that more coins show the D at the start of the legend and the G at the end than any other part of the legend but this one was selected for Leo&#039;s cute lion.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183068[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, this coin required a lot of luck but is fully identifiable as the variety where the L in Leo was replaced by a Greek lambda. Some people might dislike the coin because of the natural flan flaw hole (filled with dirt) that runs diagonally through the flan just under the duck-lips portrait.&nbsp; The mintmark is off flan but the lambda only comes from Constantinople (RIC686).&nbsp; From my point of view, the faults of this coin do no damage at all.&nbsp; I would not trade this coin for a mint state example with no hole but with that lambda off flan.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183069[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Below there is no Leo legend but the reverse is said to be his wife Verina.&nbsp; I take the word of experts on this one.&nbsp; I might have guessed it was a chame<b>leo</b>n.&nbsp; I have to wonder about the portrait.&nbsp; Mumps?&nbsp; Chewing tobacco?&nbsp; I probably bought this one because the NIC mintmark is mostly there (although I do like chameleons).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183070[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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